📰 New in TMR Weekly: on M.F. Husain between India & Qatar, 7 books for the world’s marginals, and Bernard Khoury’s contentious Beirut architecture.

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📰 TMR Weekly highlights: Palestinian actor Mohammad Bakri’s legacy (Hadani Ditmars); Homs theatre rebirth (Iason Athanasiadis); Lebanese farce vs. U.S. Gaza rift (Amal Ghandour).

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This week: a haunting holiday story from Greece by Ioanna Karystiani; Öykü Tekten on James Baldwin’s refuge in Istanbul; and Amal Ghandour reflecting on Emm Kamel, despair, and cultural resistance.

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Explore music as resilience, truth as revolution, and Armenian film memory in our latest features.

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New essays on Indigenous turns, making art under genocide, Palestine’s longer history, and a critical look at Trump’s peace plan.

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Today: two new short stories — Hussain A. Ayoub's war-torn dispatch and Sara Masry’s journey through memory — and Souseh’s advice column on love and survival in a time of genocide.

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Latest in TMR Weekly: new articles on Iran’s landscape, Basra’s orchards, revolution in documentaries, global Palestine solidarity, Algeria’s silencing, and media failures in Armenia/Palestine.

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Inside 23 hours of US State Dept. press briefings on Gaza, Malu Halasa reveals the spin, silence, and tension behind the headlines.

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Five essential reads from TMR: from museums that watch us back to the power of women’s bodies and culture in stitch — here are the week’s biggest conversations across art, literature, and identity:

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Brutally Honest Exploration of Taboo Subjects in Empty Cages A novel that explores taboo subjects with exceptional craftsmanship, while reconstructing the “self” from pain and fragmented identities.

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Fatma Qandil’s “Empty Cages” (@aucpress.bsky.social) rewrites the limits of honesty. Ahmed Naji (@ahmednaji.bsky.social) explores how shame, desire, and memory shape the lives of Egyptian women, where every cage is both shelter and trap.

🔗 Read: bit.ly/brutally-hone...

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Swipe, read, share.

Literature is resistance.

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In Nasser Rabah’s Poetry, تقول القصيدة كلمتها Nasser Rabah and other poets of Gaza are still writing — still sending their poems to us, because Palestine is literature.

🕊️ “The poem said its piece, and moved on…”

#TMRWeekly reviews “Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece” (City Lights, 2025) by Gazan poet Nasser Rabah, translated by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal & Khaled Al-Hilli.

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Hope Without Hope: Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment Matt Broomfield's new book explores the history of the Rojava revolution in Syrian Kurdistan as a model for global liberation movements.

Arie Amaya-Akkermans (@dilmunite.bsky.social) reviews “Hope Without Hope” by Matt Broomfield — a deep dive into Rojava’s revolution, failure, and hope.

📘 Published by @akpress.org

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Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah—a Review Gurnah's new novel, "Theft," is a post-colonial exploration of Tanzania, immigration, and the relationship between Africa and the west.

📚“There was something we knew about living that we no longer know now.”
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “Theft”

(@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social/@riverheadbooks.bsky.social, 2025) explores generational trauma & postcolonial Tanzania.

Read Philip Grant’s review here: bit.ly/theft-by-abdu...

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A Tehrani recalls the 12-Day War, a Kurdish artist resists repression, and July World Picks spotlight bold stories from the Middle East and diaspora.

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Victorious Decolonization in the Work of Joyce Joumaa Lebanese Canadian writer and visual artist Joyce Joumaa’s videos demonstrate that the colonized are not passive recipients of their condition.

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Joyce Joumaa’s art reclaims space and memory—from The Battle of Algiers to FIFA. Aidan Simardone unpacks her decolonial vision across sport, war, and resistance.

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Iraq's Kurdish Genocide and Three Wars: Artists Osman Ahmed & Fakher Mohammed A joint Arab/Kurdish exhibition at Baghdad’s The Gallery showcased how the nation’s two solitudes can unite through art.

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In Baghdad, a rare Arab-Kurdish show brings Osman Ahmed & Fakher Mohammed into powerful dialogue on war, genocide & cultural memory.

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This week in TMR: stories of transformation and displacement—from the shifting streets of Cairo to the liminal lives of Palestinian exiles.

Dive in here: https://bit.ly/3O4lB9S

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Why Mezze? The June issue offers a diverse selection of essays, reviews and fiction, with a centerpiece by Lina Mounzer and art story by Hadani Ditmars.

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A bold spread of stories: Lina Mounzer on love and labor in the kitchen, Samir Kacimi’s surreal fiction, voices from Baghdad to Beirut—and Joe Sacco on Gaza.

🫒 Come hungry. Leave inspired.

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📰 In this week’s TMR: Stories of war, memory, and survival. From Gaza to Beirut, explore powerful essays on displacement, motherhood, and the trauma of siege.

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New in TMR Weekly — dive into three powerful new pieces that interrogate collapse, conspiracy, and the limits of truth-telling: bit.ly/3O4lB9S

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New in TMR Weekly: bit.ly/3O4lB9S

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Latest in TMR Weekly: urgent reflections on politics, migration, and imagination.

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Latest in TMR Weekly: two powerful reflections on memory, migration, and meaning.

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Read These Books by Arab American Authors An inspiring collection of remarkable titles to mark Arab American Heritage Month in the US, showcasing vibrant culture and a rich history.

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April is designated as #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth - a time to celebrate the rich culture, history, and contributions of Arab Americans.

📖 To honor this heritage, we’ve curated a selection of notable titles to dive into: bit.ly/read-these-b...

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